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Wednesday, June 22, 2011

4 blessed beyond belief years

Steven and I have a few scriptures we live by. I'm pretty sure these words are what help make our marriage a very happy, easy, and successful one. They go something like this:

1 Corinthians 13

1 If I speak in the tonguesof men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.

4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. 11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. 12 For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

Happy Anniversary, Steven! Thanks for picking little ole me to spend the rest of your life with! I don't know what I ever did to deserve a MAN as faithful and loving as you, but I thank God, everyday! Every. Single. Day. I look forward to every minute, hour, today, and tomorrow, because I get to spend it with you. I love you--am completely and madly in love with you!